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Message-Id: <9C21961E-24D3-4C97-A5AB-B70451E4F952@lca.pw>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 17:14:46 -0400
From: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: Two small fixes for recent syzbot reports
> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:06 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM Qian Cai <cai@....pw> wrote:
>>
>> Agree to make a big deal part. My point is that when kicking trees of linux-next, it also could reduce the exposure of many patches (which could be bad) to linux-next and miss valuable early testing either from robots or human.
>
> Sure. But I'd want to be notified when something gets kicked out, so
> that I then know not to pull it.
>
> So it would reduce the exposure of patches, but it would also make
> sure those patches then don't make it upstream.
>
> Untested patches is fine - as long as nobody else has to suffer through them.
Excellent. It now very much depends on how Stephen will notify you when
a tree, a patchset or even a developer should be blacklisted for some time
to make this a success.
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